I was trying to make a point that, when we are faced with choices having only unpleasant options — taking one of those unpleasant options is still a choice.
We have limited agency in this world, and saying “I had no choice, I had to do it” instead of “of the various choices I had, I picked this one as least-bad” is a kind of self-delusion that makes our lives feel even more constrained than they really are.
Keeping this awareness in mind, that I do have other choices, helps me hold my emotions together in times like now when I find myself choosing to swallow a shit sandwich as my best-available option.
You do you, man.
Everything is a choice. Sometimes the options are shit. But we’re still making choices all our lives and the shit options are still options.
that’s quite rude
I was not trying to be rude here.
I was trying to make a point that, when we are faced with choices having only unpleasant options — taking one of those unpleasant options is still a choice.
We have limited agency in this world, and saying “I had no choice, I had to do it” instead of “of the various choices I had, I picked this one as least-bad” is a kind of self-delusion that makes our lives feel even more constrained than they really are.
Keeping this awareness in mind, that I do have other choices, helps me hold my emotions together in times like now when I find myself choosing to swallow a shit sandwich as my best-available option.